It was kind of weird when Floyd Mayweather Jr. fought Andre Berto in September in what is supposed to be Mayweather’s final fight. Mayweather is a legend, and few really wanted to see his swan song. There was no buzz about it.

Now we find out this week that this generation’s other legendary fighter – Manny Pacquiao – will be taking on welterweight champion Timothy Bradley (31-1-1, 13 KOs) a third time, on April 9 at MGM Grand in Las Vegas. It is supposed to be Pacquiao’s final bout. His promoter, Bob Arum, is not convinced of that.

The first two fights between the two were anything but thrilling. They were decent, but nothing more. Even the controversy created in the first fight – Bradley was scored a split-decision winner of a fight he obviously lost in June 2012 – didn’t have anyone really drooling over the rematch in April 2014. In that one, the judges got it right when scoring Pacquiao the unanimous-decision winner.

Arum is already playing the Teddy Atlas card at the outset of the promotion for this HBO pay-per-view card. He’s telling us all that because Atlas is now Bradley’s trainer, this third leg of the trilogy will be the most exciting.

“I don’t think there’s any question, but that it will be,” Arum told us during a telephone conversation Wednesday.

“I don’t really know because he was interested in all three,” Arum said. “But I think what really tipped him was the fact that cable companies, the satellite providers, the MGM, HBO pay-per-view, all thought that this Bradley would be best – from a marketing standpoint – the best choice.”

The feeling here is it would be more exciting to see Pacquiao tangle with Crawford or Khan than a third time with Bradley because there would be a better chance for a thriller.

But this is what we have. And Arum is going to make sure everyone he talks to knows that this is going to be a great fight because Teddy Atlas will make sure of it. What Arum said he won’t do is go around saying that this is Pacquiao’s final fight. He’s not sure it will be, even though Pacquiao, 37, has told Arum just that.

“I think people should buy this fight because of the event, because of the fight, because we’re going to have a great undercard,” Arum said. “And they shouldn’t buy the event because it’s their last opportunity to see Manny Pacquiao. That would not necessarily be the case. It may be the case. But it may not.”

The first two fights did approximately 900,000 and 800,000 pay-per-view buys, respectively, according to industry sources. It’s doubtful this one will approach those numbers.

Bradley, of Palm Springs, is 32.

The undercard

Arum is trying to put together an interesting undercard. For one, he’d like to get Arthur Abraham of Germany to defend his super middleweight title against Gilberto Ramirez of Mexico.

“Right now we’re trying to get super middleweight champion Arthur Abraham (44-4, 29 KOs) of Germany over here and have him fight Gilberto Ramirez (33-0, 24 KOs) because that would be, I think, a tremendous fight on the undercard,” Arum said. “Ramirez would be the first Mexican ever to win a super middleweight title, so that’s significant.”

And, get this, Arum also wants to try and have former heavyweight contender Ike Ibeabuchi on the card. Ibeabuchi was recently released from prison after serving 14 years for attempted sexual assault and battery with intent to commit a crime.

Ibeabuchi (20-0, 15 KOs), a former contender who will be 43 Feb. 2, has hooked up with Pacquiao’s manager, Michael Koncz. Arum would like to get him in the ring with Andy Ruiz Jr. (26-0, 17 KOs), who is ranked as high as No. 8 in the world.

“I’ve gotta meet with the (Nevada) commission and I’m going go talk to the commission about the possibility of them sanctioning it because the guy hasn’t fought in 14 years,” Arum said; actually, if will be just more than 17 years since his last fight if he fights on this undercard. “He trained in prison and I don’t know how the commission’s going to go on that, but I’m optimistic. If I can pull it off, that would be a great attraction.”

The commission could balk on that one.

Etc.

We are two weeks out from the Jan 16 heavyweight title fight between champion Deontay Wilder (35-0, 34 KOs) of Tuscaloosa, Ala., and Artur Szpilka (20-1, 15 KOs) of Poland from Barclays Center in Brooklyn (on Showtime). … The aforementioned Ruiz, of Imperial, will take on Danny Batchelder (31-11-1, 15 KOs) of Phoenix on Jan. 16 at The Bomb Factory in Dallas (on Unimas). … Javier Molina (17-1, 8 KOs) of Norwalk will take on Jamal James (18-0, 9 KOs) of Minneapolis on Jan. 19 in the welterweight main event from Club Nokia in Los Angeles (on Fox Sports 1).

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